Students can be full partners in designing their education

Attending to Individual Students: How student modelling can be used in designing personalised Blended Learning objects

This paper reports on research carried out at the University of Hertfordshire over the past ten years relating to how the experience of learning can be personalised for individual learners. This work relates primarily to Computer-Based Learning (CBL), but is not restricted to it, as it encompasses a blended approach, linking on-and off-computer teaching and learning activities. The research rep...

Can music be used in medical education?

Medical students and their education.

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, may I first say how gratified I am to see so many of you here, and especially my senior colleagues. It is always a pleasure to see them, and it must always be so at the Royal Victoria Hospital. However, I hope that you will forgive me if I address myself principally to the younger generation. I would like to associate myself with Mr. Irwin's welcome to those of you who hav...

‘Students-as-partners’ scheme enhances postgraduate students’ employability skills while addressing gaps in bioinformatics education

Teaching bioinformatics is a longstanding challenge for educators who need to demonstrate to students how skills developed in the classroom may be applied to real world research. This study employed an action research methodology which utilised student-staff partnership and peer-learning. It was centred on the experiences of peer-facilitators, students who had previously taken a postgraduate bi...

Designing future products: what difficulties do designers encounter and how can their creative process be supported?

To remain competitive, companies must regularly offer new products to consumers. A major challenge for designers is therefore to come up with design solutions and define products that are both new and adapted to future users and usages. Although classic methods and ergonomic recommendations are useful in most run-of-the-mill design contexts, they are of limited benefit when the design situation...